Madigan cut his reporter's chops on the cop beat in Odessa, Texas, and feature writing at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. By the mid-1990s, Tim had become one of the most decorated newspaper reporters in recent Texas history (three times named the state's top reporter), while writing about everything from sick children, to serial killers, cowboy poets, to his own experiences as a husband and father.

His first book, See No Evil: Blind Devotion and Bloodshed in David Koresh's Holy War was published in 1993, followed eight years later by The Burning: Massacre, Destruction and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Madigan's most recent book, I'm Proud of You. My Friendship With Fred Rogers, reveals his life-altering friendship with Fred Rogers, which began in 1995 when he profiled the children's icon for the Star-Telegram.

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